obedience ; dispositional explanation Flashcards
what is authoritarian personality?
-oebying people in auhtority even when orders are destructive
- submissive to those of higher status and dismissive of inferiors.
-often uncomfortable w uncertaintity
what causes a authoritrian personality?
-physical punishment - causes black and white thinking- categorise their childrens behaviout into good or bad (no middle ground)
-parents insisted them to be asexual and not angry(causes bottled up urges)
- cant express feelings bc they fear punishment
-good & bad behaviour is put seperate(punitive)
-parents are harsh & high standards
what are the defence mechanisms?
-projecting- unaccpetable thinking upon minorities- gay, african, american , welfare mothers
-displacement- rage onto “bad people”
-scapegoating= express hatred to those who r inferior or from other social grps
evaluation for adornos study?
-research support (20)
small sample of people participated in orginal obedience and were fully obidient
- they completed the F scale
- 20 ps scored signficanlty high comapred to a group of 20 disobidient
-two grps diff in terms of authortarianism
-obdient ppl = authoritarian personality
counterpoint for adornos reserach support?
(traits unlike authoritrains)
-obdient ps had some traits unsual for a authoritarian
-obdient ps didnt glorify their fathers, didnt have hostile views towards their mothers
-link between obdience and authoritarism is complex
obidient ps were unlike authoritarians.
limited explaination?
(social identity theory)
-cant explain obdience in the majority of a countries population
- prewar germany = millions displayed obedient and anti semintic behaviour (may have differed in personalaties)
unlikely they all had an authotarian personality
alternatively, may have identified w nazi state- more realistic (social identity theory)
flawed evidence?
-you can just select agree on the fscale for a high score
-anyone w response bias can be assessed as having a authotarian personality
